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Wes Anderson |
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Director / Screenwriter / Producer |
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1969 - |
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Born May 1,
Houston, Texas, USA |
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Key
Production Country: USA |
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Key Genres:
Comedy, Comedy Drama,
Coming-of-Age |
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Collaborators: Robert Yeoman (Cinematographer), Owen
Wilson (Leading Character Player/Screenwriter), Bill Murray (Leading
Character Player), Jason Schwartzman (Leading Player/Screenwriter),
Scott Rudin (Producer), Mark Mothersbaugh (Composer), Barry Mendel
(Producer), Luke Wilson (Leading
Character Player), Anjelica Huston (Leading Character Player), David Moritz
(Editor). |
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Highly Recommended: The
Royal Tenenbaums (2001)*^,
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)^ |
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Recommended: Bottle
Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998)*, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
(2004)^, Hotel Chevalier (2007), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Moonrise
Kingdom (2012) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
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Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links: [
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
The
Rushmore Academy: The Films of Wes Anderson ] [
Guardian Articles ] [
Film
Monthly Interview ] [
National
Geographic Interview (2004) ] [
Guardian
Article (2005) ] [
Guardian Interview (2012) ] [
Boston Phoenix
Interview (2007) ] [
Wikipedia ] [
New
York Magazine Interview (2007) ] [
AV Club
Interview (2007) ] [
Cinema-Scope Article (2010) ]
[
Washington Post Interview (2012) ] [
Screen Machine
Article (2012) ] |
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Books: [
Wes Anderson: Why His Movies Matter ] [
Wes Anderson: An Unauthorized Biography of the
Iconic Filmmaker ] [
Film Direction, Perfected: Profile of Wes Anderson
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The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox: A Film by Wes
Anderson Based on the Book by Roald Dahl
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"With
a distinctive visual style that steers clear of the gross
plagiarism of many post-Tarantino
thirtysomething directors, Anderson sets himself apart from most
of his contemporaries. His work is as refreshing and visually
inspiring as any
Coen brothers' film
and restores faith in the idea that Hollywood can still produce
an idiosyncratic black comedy once in a while."
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Peter Homden (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002) |
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"Few
directors' films deserve the term "character-driven" more than
Anderson's. His films are also casting-, music-, mood- and even
production design-driven (he works with more or less the same
key production personnel every time), but whatever powers their
engines, action and plot are but trace elements in the fuel." -
Leslie Felperin (The Rough Guide to Film, 2007) |
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"King
of literary geek chic on the silver screen, Wes Anderson emerged
from the U.S. movie underground an almost ready-made savant.
Remarkably quickly, his quirky, off-kilter films neatly
established Anderson almost as a genre unto himself." -
Joshua Klein (501 Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest
Filmmakers, 2007)
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"The idea is to make this self-contained world that is the right
place for the characters to live in, a place where you can
accept their behaviour." - Wes Anderson |
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"As
a visual stylist, Anderson has gotten progressively more
inventive with each film, to the extent that some critics
faulted The Life Aquatic for neglecting character and
plot in favor of elaborately staged set pieces. Although the
low budget naturalism of Bottle Rocket showed
Anderson’s eye for detail and his command of deadpan long
shots, the vibrant color schemes, creative editing, and
jangling soundtrack of Rushmore were a surprise. The
Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic further
developed those attributes, revealing a baroque Pop bent
that is not realist, surrealist, or magic realist. If
anything, it recalls the fabulism of
Terry
Gilliam." -
Jesse Fox Mayshark, Post-Pop
Cinema: The Search for Meaning in New American Film |
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Top 250 Directors |
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21st Century Top
50 |
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Ranked
29th on The Guardian's 2004 List of the World's 40 Best Directors |
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Ranked 24th on Film Comment's list of the 25 Best
Directors of the Decade (2000-2009) |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Robert Altman |
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Paul Thomas Anderson |
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Hal Ashby |
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Joel Coen & Ethan Coen |
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Terry Gilliam |
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Hal Hartley |
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Alexander Payne |
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Satyajit Ray |
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Wes Anderson's Favourites |
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Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stanley Kubrick,
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Roman Polanski,
Toni (1935)
Jean Renoir,
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Ernst Lubitsch,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols
(1966).
Source: Rotten Tomatoes (2012) |
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